Washington Post Fumbles in Skins D Coverage

The Washington Post's Skins coverage has focused on the problems of the offense or blamed individual defensive players, most notably Adam Archuleta, while doing a profile of Gregg Williams post this devastating ESPN article.

But the O is ranked 11 while the D is ranked 30, ergo the D is why we are losing games.

The non- Wa Post reality is that Gregg Williams inherited an amazing D from Marvin Lewis and has destroyed it over three years, trading his best players away every year, in an almost maniacal drive to prove that his system (which justifies his insane salary) is more important than the players who execute it. Williams has systematically destroyed the D by tossing away great players.

If one could build a dream defense, it might consist of Champ Bailey, Fred Smoot, Antonio Pierce, LaVar Arrington (face of the Redskins), Ryan Clark and Walt Harris. Yet Williams deemed all of those players replaceable. Worse, he let Pierce, who was the captain of our defense, and Arrington, go to a division rival. I can argue that Pierce's knowledge of our O caused our 2005 rout in the Meadowlands and lost us home field advantage in the playoffs and possibly a Super Bowl position.

So why is the Post's coverage, which is otherwise outstanding, missing the point on the D? Well Wilbon is great but he doesn't write much anymore (though when he does it rocks), Boswell is often off-base and perhaps the rest of the reporters need access so don't tell us what we need to hear, like ESPN can.